 BBC
Unsung Landmarks - Great Baddow Radar Tower
The BBC have a Poll on their website for UK's Greatest Unsung Landmarks
and a significant Radio landmark features among them, the Radar Tower
at Great Baddow.
Look halfway down the BBC home page http://www.bbc.co.uk/
and click on "Unsung landmarks", next to the Microwave Dish
picture. That'll take you to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
magazine/4791577.stm
Now click on the “East”
link and that’ll take you two-thirds of the way down the page to
an item by Ian Beeby on the WW2 Radar Tower at Great Baddow. Alongside
that is a box for you to cast your vote. Currently Great Baddow has 11.94%
of the vote.
Ian Beeby writes:
"I used to work in Great Baddow at the Marconi Research Centre
(now part of BAE Systems, so I believe) and there was an old Chain Home
radar tower there which I had the pleasure of climbing on many occasions.
It could be seen for miles around (as Essex is so flat) and was quite
a landmark. I heard that the company had wanted to take it down but that
conservationists got it listed - if its still there it is quite a splendid
landmark - much the most impressive thing about Chelmsford!"
Well it most certainly is still there and provides a dramatic landmark
in central Essex.
Why not visit the website and give Great Baddow your vote.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4791577.stm#region4
73 Trevor M5AKA
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